Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990-2019.

ABSTRACT: This paper assesses the growth and spatial distribution of federal place-based policies in the United States. Using a novel dataset of federal place-based policies from 1990 to 2019, we show how the dual forces of fiscalization and financialization have fueled a substantial increase in federal place-based funding to communities via competitive tax credit and grant programs. We consider whether federal place-based funding has been distributed in a compensatory way by prioritizing more disadvantaged communities or whether it has compounded neighborhood inequalities by prioritizing more advantaged communities. We find that federal place-based funding has gone overwhelmingly to communities experiencing economic disadvantage, as intended, but at the same time such policies have compounded other

SUBMITTER: Tach L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12674005 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature